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IKEA's cuddly golden retriever plush got a product photo that looks like a police booking photo

Screenshot circulating on Korean communities · original poster unknown · Trended
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A shopper spotted the price tag for IKEA's GOSIG GOLDEN dog plush and could not get over the photo.

Korean community post, image 1: Why'd they shoot it like a mugshot, looking like a straight-up criminal?
EN ›Why'd they shoot it like a mugshot, looking like a straight-up criminal? "GOSIG GOLDEN — plush toy, dog/golden retriever, 40cm. A cute, fluffy friend who goes anywhere with you..." ₩9,900
💡 Why does a stuffed dog read as a criminal here?
The tag's copy is all soft fluff, but the photo is dead-center, flat lighting, blank wall — the exact framing Korean news uses for a suspect's booking photo. The gap between "cute fluffy friend" and "perp walk" is the whole joke.vs. the US: like a Beanie Baby posed for a county jail intake photo.

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